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Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life - from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father.
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- De Kirk McElhearn en 02-04-09
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Sometimes a Great Notion
- De: Ken Kesey
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 30 h y 32 m
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A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- De Mr. Eyuz en 06-07-19
De: Ken Kesey
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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Emotional & Powerful
- De Miss Toni en 06-30-13
De: Maya Angelou
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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Look Homeward, Angel
- De: Thomas Wolfe
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 26 h y 18 m
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The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink.
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One Of The Gret Novels Of The 20th Century
- De Eric en 02-22-09
De: Thomas Wolfe
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Cane
- De: Jean Toomer
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
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When Robots Read, and I'm a Fan of Robots...
- De Jonathan en 03-26-13
De: Jean Toomer
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Johnny Got His Gun
- De: Dalton Trumbo
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. This is no ordinary novel. This is the story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I - he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with his mind intact.
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- De Carollynn7 en 11-27-11
De: Dalton Trumbo
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Gravity's Rainbow
- De: Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller - cover design
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 37 h y 21 m
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- De Jefferson en 07-04-16
De: Thomas Pynchon, y otros
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- De: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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The Sound and the Fury
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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Hang in
- De W.Denis en 07-11-05
De: William Faulkner
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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On Juneteenth
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- De BK en 05-18-21
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Wake
- The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
- De: Rebecca Hall, Tyler English-Beckwith - adapter
- Narrado por: DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams, Jerrie Johnson, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 41 m
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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always said that enslaved women were not involved, but Rebecca decides to look deeper.
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Not what I expected
- De Earlene Doll en 01-05-23
De: Rebecca Hall, y otros
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Juneteenth
- The History and Legacy of the Holiday that Commemorates the End of Slavery in the South
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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Celebrants of the first Independence Day took little time to ponder the status of equality between the races. Primarily, their attention was taken up with the overthrow of a foreign colonial power, one not accomplished through the will of an overwhelming majority. The bold move shaped by colonial legislators and promoted to the colonies by the founding fathers represented a first-of-its kind emancipation, as no European colony had so completely faced down its mother country in a test of wills.
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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How Did This Escape Me?
- De E. Pearson en 11-23-11
De: Ralph Ellison
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Three Days Before the Shooting...
- De: Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan - editor, Adam Bradley - editor
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman, Arthur Morey
- Duración: 63 h y 6 m
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At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly 2000 pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting... gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.
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Wonderful reading
- De Andrew K. en 11-15-20
De: Ralph Ellison, y otros
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Be Free or Die
- The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
- De: Cate Lineberry
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces.
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Great Book about a Great man
- De Evan en 02-19-18
De: Cate Lineberry
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On Juneteenth
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- De BK en 05-18-21
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Wake
- The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
- De: Rebecca Hall, Tyler English-Beckwith - adapter
- Narrado por: DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams, Jerrie Johnson, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 41 m
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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always said that enslaved women were not involved, but Rebecca decides to look deeper.
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Not what I expected
- De Earlene Doll en 01-05-23
De: Rebecca Hall, y otros
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Juneteenth
- The History and Legacy of the Holiday that Commemorates the End of Slavery in the South
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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Celebrants of the first Independence Day took little time to ponder the status of equality between the races. Primarily, their attention was taken up with the overthrow of a foreign colonial power, one not accomplished through the will of an overwhelming majority. The bold move shaped by colonial legislators and promoted to the colonies by the founding fathers represented a first-of-its kind emancipation, as no European colony had so completely faced down its mother country in a test of wills.
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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How Did This Escape Me?
- De E. Pearson en 11-23-11
De: Ralph Ellison
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Three Days Before the Shooting...
- De: Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan - editor, Adam Bradley - editor
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman, Arthur Morey
- Duración: 63 h y 6 m
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At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly 2000 pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting... gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.
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Wonderful reading
- De Andrew K. en 11-15-20
De: Ralph Ellison, y otros
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Be Free or Die
- The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
- De: Cate Lineberry
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces.
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Great Book about a Great man
- De Evan en 02-19-18
De: Cate Lineberry
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The Souls of Black Folk
- De: W.E.B. Du Bois
- Narrado por: Walter Covell
- Duración: 8 h
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W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise, The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line", a prescient statement. Setting out to show to the audience "the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the 20th century", Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race.
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An eloquent & educational history
- De Chandra en 02-19-05
De: W.E.B. Du Bois
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
- De: Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan - editor, Saul Bellow - preface
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman, Arthur Morey
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
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Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this classic collection includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race," and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that Black Americans lead.
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Ellison was an American experience
- De Leslie en 02-05-23
De: Ralph Ellison, y otros
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- De: Clint Smith
- Narrado por: Clint Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
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Sincerely grateful read
- De Kelvin Dixon en 06-08-21
De: Clint Smith
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
- De: Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Anna Deavere Smith
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in the 1850s is the only known novel by a female African American slave, and quite possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere. A work recently uncovered by renowned scholar and professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is a stirring tale of "passing" and the adventures of a young slave as she makes her way to freedom.
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Poor reading of an important book
- De Hilary en 11-15-04
De: Hannah Crafts, y otros
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
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Olio Live
- De: Tyehimba Jess
- Narrado por: Piper Goodeve, Kayla White, Jaylene Clark Owens, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
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In Olio Live - a very special one-night performance recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theater in February 2019 - poet Tyehimba Jess introduces listeners to his 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Olio. A stellar cast of actors, accompanied by pianist Jeremy Gill, performs a selection of poems from the collection, all of which reinterpret the lived experience of real historical figures.
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BEAUTIFUL
- De Jackie GREEN en 06-09-19
De: Tyehimba Jess
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The Deep
- De: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, y otros
- Narrado por: Daveed Diggs
- Duración: 4 h y 1 m
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Yetu holds the memories for her people - water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners - who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one - the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities.
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- De Nathaniel en 12-14-19
De: Rivers Solomon, y otros
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek
- De: Tonya Bolden
- Narrado por: Robin Eller
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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When Mariah and her young brother, Zeke, are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named Caleb, Mariah dreams in a way she never dared...of a future worth living and the possibility of true love.
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Heartbreaking
- De Kim Padan en 11-13-23
De: Tonya Bolden
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Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- De: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present - edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
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History never taught
- De Scott P ODonnell en 02-16-21
De: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, y otros
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A Little Devil in America
- Notes in Praise of Black Performance
- De: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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“I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.” Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Filled with sharp insight, humor, and heart, A Little Devil in America exalts the Black performance that unfolds in specific moments in time and space
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Magical
- De Mary A. Ardoin en 05-11-21
De: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Who Is Billie Jean King?
- De: Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
- Narrado por: Koren Paul
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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Billie Jean King grew up in a family of athletes. It was no surprise when she quickly began to excel at tennis. She became the top female singles player in the world and won 129 career singles titles, including Wimbledon and the US Open. Beyond being an excellent athlete, Billie Jean King used her voice to stand up for other women playing tennis who were not paid nearly as much as male players. In 1973, Billie Jean captured the world's attention when she beat Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes," proving women were just as good at tennis as men.
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High on the Hog
- A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
- De: Jessica B. Harris
- Narrado por: Jessica Harris
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the listener on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way. From chitlins and ham hocks to fried chicken and vegan soul, Harris celebrates the delicious and restorative foods of the African American experience and details how each came to form an important part of African American culture, history, and identity.
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- De Scott Johnson en 09-02-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Juneteenth
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"Invisible Man" and "Juneteenth" are necessary, brilliant and will have an undeniable physical, emotional, intellectual and moral impact on any reader. Stunningly written and beautifully voiced by Mr. Morton.
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Would you try another book from Ralph Ellison and/or Joe Morton?
Yes
Would you be willing to try another book from Ralph Ellison? Why or why not?
Yes. His other book, Invisible Man has been on my list of books to read for a long time.
What does Joe Morton bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He's a great orator, which is a plus in this book with all it's orations. He also does the quieter parts well.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No
Any additional comments?
It’s a shame Ralph Ellison never was able to finish his second novel. In this edition, editor John Callahan tells the story of how he was working on it for years and years, and just when he had it nearly finished, the manuscript, or at least a large part of it, was destroyed in a fire. He went back to working on it, but was never able to get it to that point again. Working with it after Ellison’s death, Callahan determined that the existing material could likely have become three novels, but none of them was completely finished. What he was able to put together as the most coherent part of the narrative is Juneteenth, which was apparently intended to be the middle part of the story. I think I would have liked the story better if all the parts had been there.
Senator Adam Sunraider, a politician who has built a career out of a blatantly racist attitude, is speechifying on the floor of the senate when somebody in the gallery starts shooting at him. As he is fighting for his life in the hospital, it is surprisingly an old black preacher he calls ‘Daddy Hickman’ that he asks for.
In a long series of flashbacks and reminiscences we learn the story of how Daddy Hickman raised Sunraider (known in childhood as ‘Bliss’) from birth, and of some of his exploits after he ran away from Daddy Hickman and the church.
Anyone who is a fan of good old-time black preaching will doubtless like the book, as a good portion of it is sermons from the long-ago past. The narrator, Joe Morton does an excellent job with this book.
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Moreton's Brilliant Performance of Juneteenth
Where does Juneteenth rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is one of the best books and certainly one of the best narrators I've enjoyed in a decade of Audible experiences.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Rev. A.Z. Hickman is a total, compelling protagonist, clear-eyed and poetic.
What does Joe Morton bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I think Joe Morton should be performing this book on stage. He paints this book with his voice, and listening to him is definitely a richer experience than reading the book in print.
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- Katrina Anderson
- 10-12-21
Not good
Way too much religious rhetoric for me. Story was ok. Was expecting it to be on the level of his other work
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- Terrance
- 11-01-21
Don't scream while recording an audiobook
The novel itself is better than it's remembered, but the performance deserves one star for the random ear-piercing shrieks the narrator performs, and the audioengineer overlooks. People listen to audiobooks with headphones--unexpected shrieks physically hurt. You would expect professionals to do a better job than this.
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- 05-13-17
The Huckleberry Finn of the Twentieth Century
What did you love best about Juneteenth?
I love best the rich language of Juneteenth that combined preacher sermons, political diatribes, jazz, blues, and even Br'er Rabbit makes an appearance. Ellison states in his notes that he wrote a twentieth century version of Twain's Huckleberry Finn in that it features a modern day version of Huck and Jim exploring not only a new territory, but what it means to be black and white in America. The rich language tapestry also reminds me of Shakespeare, Melville, and Faulkner.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Juneteenth?
I do not want to give to much away, but it involves a casket at a Juneteenth revival meeting. You will be both shocked and tickled. The entire book and the trajectories of the characters pivot on this masterfully realized scene.
What about Joe Morton’s performance did you like?
As he did in Invisible Man, Joe Morton gives a masterful, rich performance that infused jazz, blues, playing the dozens, tall tales, preacher sermons, and political stump speeches. He can go deep with his baritone voice. With an ease, he shifts from character to distinct character without skipping a beat. No one can match his skill as a narrator of black dialect. He rose to the occasion to match and give voice to the author's vision of a tapestry of language.
Any additional comments?
Juneteenth is a must read for anyone who loved Invisible Man. It is even more ambitious than his signature work. It provides a nice bookend to explore his ideas of race in America.
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- 06-23-22
great work, but not cohesive
I listened to this book and found myself admiring the incredible narration. individual chapters are extremely powerful. as a whole, though, it feels as those the pieces don't blend as well.
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- Kathe
- 05-26-17
Joe "Daddy Pope" Morton is the perfect narrator!
I recently re-read Invisible Man and yearned for more. I love this story. At times, I had to rewind and relisten but thats ok. I highly recommend as this book is more relevant than ever!
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- 01-07-22
What a wonderful powerful sad story story.
I can feel the love between the two men, and the tension
of American, in feeling like You don't have the right to
stand up and ask American to change, but that you can
stand up and push the country down the path of
entrenching its status quo.
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- Margaret
- 03-15-22
Joe Morton Brings Ralph Ellison to Life
Ellison is a genius but not an easy read. Morton has studied the text and his delivery aides the listener as well as might a professor.
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